Vulnerability CVE-2018-19478
Published: 2019-01-02

Description:
In Artifex Ghostscript before 9.26, a carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an extremely long running computation when parsing the file.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Debian -> Debian linux 
Artifex -> Ghostscript 

 References:
http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=0a7e5a1c309fa0911b892fa40996a7d55d90bace
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106445
https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699856
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1655607
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00019.html
https://www.ghostscript.com/doc/9.26/History9.htm
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